Horacio Sanz, better known by his stage name Horatio Sanz, is a Chilean-born American actor and comedian. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998 to 2006.
Early life and career
Sanz, the youngest of three sons, was born in Santiago, Chile, to Sylvia and Carlos Sanz. He is the younger brother of actor Carlos Sanz. He grew up in the North-Pulaski area of the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. He became an American citizen on July 25, 2018 in Los Angeles. Sanz performed at various theaters in Chicago, including The Court Theater and The Second City, where he was a member of their Chicago ETC theater. While in Chicago, Sanz was also one of the founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigadesketch comedy and improv troupe. Sanz can still be seen regularly performing with the sketch troupe at their long-running improv show "ASSSSCAT 3000", at both of the UCB's comedy theaters, located in New York City and Los Angeles. Sanz was part of the cast of the short-lived ABC sitcom In The Motherhood in 2009, playing the role of Horatio the "manny". In 2010, Sanz and his former SNL castmate Chris Parnell starred together on Big Lake, a Comedy Central sitcom from executive producersWill Ferrell and Adam McKay. From 2010 to 2011, Sanz was a writer and producer on the Comedy Central sketch series Nick Swardson's Pretend Time. In November 2008, Sanz made his first public appearance in almost a year, after having lost. "I've been eating better," he admitted. Sanz quipped, "I've been trying to come up with a joke about how I've lost weight and I was going to say, 'I stopped putting nuts in my sundaes.'" He also says, "I never weighed myself when I was at my fattest, because I was scared I might die'." Sanz says he has been working out, too. In June 2009, he appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and said that much of his weight loss was because he had stopped drinking alcoholic beverages. In 2015, he started his own podcast called The Hooray Show, which features comedy sketches and interviews with his friends in comedy.
''Saturday Night Live''
Sanz joined the cast of Saturday Night Livein September 1998 as the first Hispanic cast member. At the beginning of SNL's 31st season, he was the temporary replacement for Tina Fey as Amy Poehler's Weekend Update co-anchor while Fey was on maternity leave until she resumed her duties on October 22, 2005. On September 20, 2006, SNL announced that Sanz would not be returning due to massive budget cuts that called for Lorne Michaels to either produce fewer episodes or reduce expenses, including the paring of long-standing, highly paid cast members such as Sanz. Sanz returned to SNL as a guest on February 3, 2007, appearing as Elton John, and again on November 3, as presidential candidateBill Richardson and yet again on the December 17, 2011 Christmas show as himself in a musical number and as a member of Beethoven's orchestra.
